Global media watchdogs: Frenchie Mae a test case for Philippines’ press freedom
Advocates warn that Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s prolonged detention signals shrinking civic space, rising risks for Filipino community journalists
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‘It’s a wrap, mga korap!’: Film workers unite vs gov’t corruption
A newly-formed alliance of film industry workers added to calls in holding corrupt officials accountable. The Film Workers Against Corruption (FWAC) in a press conference at the UPFI Film Center in UP Diliman, Quezon City today, November 22, 2025, asserted calls...
In Search of the Sacadas
It was one of those rare moments of clarity, or one when one's view of the world suddenly comes into complete focus. In my mind, I, of course, knew that this happens all the time, in one shape or another, in places both seen and unseen. I only even saw the...
How ‘conservation’ became a cover for land grabbing from Cebu’s Cantipla farmers
By Salome Lapiten The land knows no master. Yet it recognizes a farmer’s calloused hands, worn with the same cracks that run through the barren land. It knows their blood that seeps through those fissures and breathes the same rugged breath as the farmers, enduring so...
Mga tripulanteng Pinoy, biktima ng diskriminasyon ng gobyernong US
Ni Renalyn Ramirez Pinosasan at nilagyan ng kadena sa bewang ang tripulanteng si Gina Yatar, 43, ng mga tauhan ng United States Customs and Border Patrol (USCBP) dahil sa paratang na kabilang siya sa isang teroristang grupo. Pinilit din umano siyang pumirma sa...
Rage on Recto: Young ‘stunnas’ experience police brutality for first time
On September 21, the anniversary of Martial Law, a brief program at Mendiola was supposed to end quietly. Instead, it unraveled into hours of violent expression of anger and frustration of hundreds of unorganized but politicized youths demanding an end to government...
Stray bullet victim in Mendiola protest was a bystander, says witness
Kenneth Roland Guda & Avon Ang Bryan*, a resident of the University Belt, recounted how he witnessed the shooting of Eric Saber, 35, during the chaos in Recto Avenue, near Mendiola, on September 21, 2025. Eric, he said, was a bystander who took no part in the...
Journalists from 35 countries urge Marcos to free Frenchie Mae Cumpio
Journalists from 35 countries issued a demand to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a 26-year-old community journalist who has been in jail for more than five years on what colleagues and rights defenders call...
Mendiola, September 21, 2025
(CONTENT WARNING: This report contains images and footage of violence, police brutality, and blood) In many ways, the day began in historic fashion. In Luneta, by 10 in the morning, emcees announced that the crowd was approaching 80,000, gathered mostly along...
From Flood Controls to Faculty Center: Unfinished Buildings, Unanswered Questions at UP Diliman
The scandal over anomalous flood control projects has reached the University of the Philippines Diliman. Across the campus, buildings long promised to students, faculty, and staff have inched upward only to stall, some left crumbling midway. Some of those declared...
Pilipinas, ‘pinakadelikadong bansa’ sa Asya para sa mga tanggol-kalikasan sa nakaraang 12 taon
Sa buong Asya, ang Pilipinas ang may pinakamalaking bilang ng pinapatay na tanggol-kalikasan kada taon simula noong 2012, ayon sa tala ng international organization na Global Witness. Noong 2024, nakapagtala ang grupo ng hindi bababa sa 8 kaso ng pagpatay at...
Drug war victims’ families decry Duterte’s bid to delay ICC trial
Families of victims of the Duterte administration’s bloody “war on drugs” and human rights advocates have condemned the indefinite postponement of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s confirmation of charges hearing before the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a...
Jalaur River dam violates rights, damages environment – advocates
ILOILO CITY-- A group of anti-dam advocates has rejected recent claims of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) that no human rights or environmental laws were violated in ...